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05-23-2007, 08:31 PM
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This weekend will be one of the best races of the year, primarly because of where it's being held, Monaco. What's your prediction for this weekend? I think Mclaren will be on top this weekend over Ferrari. Maybe a first win for Hamilton???? 
05-28-2007, 09:16 PM
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it would be amusing if Hamilton didn't get a win all season...he would turn into the new Button and take 6 years to win....
He's good but Fernando is better...he's a double world champion for a reason.
He's good but Fernando is better...he's a double world champion for a reason.
05-29-2007, 08:01 AM
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Man....that race was almost boring. I expect more excitement from monaco. Only surpising thing was that scott speed actually finished, and decently at that.
All the excitement was in practice and qualifying
All the excitement was in practice and qualifying
05-29-2007, 11:32 AM
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The race was pretty boring. I was wrong about Hamilton but man was he sliding that car around. Pretty risky business in such tight areas. He does have good car control but it seemed like he was over working the car more then he should have. Alonso looked pretty relaxed the entire race.
We should start an F1 pool to make things interesting.... any interest?
We should start an F1 pool to make things interesting.... any interest?
05-29-2007, 04:19 PM
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The race was pretty boring. I was wrong about Hamilton but man was he sliding that car around. Pretty risky business in such tight areas. He does have good car control but it seemed like he was over working the car more then he should have. Alonso looked pretty relaxed the entire race.
We should start an F1 pool to make things interesting.... any interest?
We should start an F1 pool to make things interesting.... any interest?
05-29-2007, 04:22 PM
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McLaren claim they are confident an investigation into their team tactics in Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix will clear them of breaking the rules.
The FIA, Formula One's governing body, launched an inquiry Monday after Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton posted a processional 1-2 for McLaren without ever fighting each other for the lead.
McLaren afterwards issued a vehement denial that they had acted illegally by ordering Hamilton not to challenge Alonso.
Announcing the probe, the FIA statement reads: "The FIA has launched an investigation into incidents involving the McLaren Mercedes team at the 2007 Monaco Grand Prix in light of a possible breach of the International Sporting Code. The relevant evidence is under review and a further announcement will be made in due course."
The International Sporting Code which the FIA believe McLaren may have broken makes it clear that damage can be caused to the sport by "any fraudulent conduct or any act prejudicial to the interests of any competition or to the interests of motor sport generally."
McLaren were quick to respond, a spokesman for the British team telling AFP: "We are very confident about FIA's investigation into our race strategy."
He added: "All the decisions that we took before and during the race respect perfectly the international sporting code.
"
Team orders were banned in F1 after Rubens Barrichello was told by Ferrari to let Michael Schumacher win the Austrian Grand Prix in 2002. The Brazilian had blatantly slowed down in the final corner, letting Schumacher claim the race. In a now-famous scene, spectators had vehemently protested by angrily throwing their Ferrari caps onto the racetrack.
McLaren don't deny that they told Hamilton and Alonso to slow their pace after the first round of pitstops in a move designed to reduce risks and engineer a McLaren 1-2 finish.
At the traditional Sunday post-race press conference McLaren team chief Ron Dennis insisted in Monaco they had not favoured defending World Champion Alonso over Hamilton, the British rookie who has taken the sport by storm posting here his fourth successive second place.
Dennis faced a barrage of questions on McLaren's strategy especially in light of the fact that Alonso had begun the race around the streets of Monte Carlo in a car carrying five laps less fuel than Hamilton.
This meant that Alonso was not only in a lighter car for qualifying on Saturday, but also in a lighter, faster car for the first part of the race.
Hamilton accepted this with a long face when he said: To see that I'm at a similar pace to Fernando is a positive for me, but it's just something I have to live with," he said. "I am in car number two so I am the number two driver."
Dennis said he understood Hamilton's disappointment, but pointed out that he would have reacted very differently if the team strategy had played into his hands.
"I think he's understandably disappointed and frustrated," Dennis recognised, adding "He would not have been frustrated or disappointed if a Safety Car had been deployed and he won the race."
"Time will tell, wont it? We do not favour anybody. There will be times and places when they are free to race, but this isn't one of them," Dennis pointed out, referring to the risks of overtaking in Monte Carlo's relatively narrow streets.
"Everybody in the pit-lane and the media would be saying, 'what an idiot the team principal from McLaren is for allowing his cars to compete, when one of them is in the barrier.'"
Dennis added that his decisions were not tantamount to team orders but formed instead a team strategy to win the race. "Team strategy is what you bring to bear to win a Grand Prix. Team orders is what you bring to bear to manipulate a Grand Prix," he explained.
"And we do not, and have not, manipulated Grands Prix, unless there were some exceptional circumstances, which occurred, for example, in Australia (1998), when at that time someone had tapped into our radio and instructed Mika Hakkinen to enter the pits."
"He entered the pits and I reversed that, because that was unfair, that was an outside influence on the outcome of the race. That is one of the very rare occasions that there's been a team order," Dennis stated.
"Everybody feels, I'm sure, that there is some favouritism or some penalisation that is given to Lewis, or Fernando, but we are scrupulously fair at all times in how we run this Grand Prix team."
"But this circuit, inevitably, has to be addressed in a team way and I make no excuses for instructing the racing drivers to slow their pace after the first stop," Dennis repeated.
Alonso leads the drivers' title race with 38 points, the same number as Hamilton, but has the edge as he has won two races this season while Hamilton has yet to secure his first F1 victory.
D.B. © CAPSIS International
Source AFP
The FIA, Formula One's governing body, launched an inquiry Monday after Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton posted a processional 1-2 for McLaren without ever fighting each other for the lead.
McLaren afterwards issued a vehement denial that they had acted illegally by ordering Hamilton not to challenge Alonso.
Announcing the probe, the FIA statement reads: "The FIA has launched an investigation into incidents involving the McLaren Mercedes team at the 2007 Monaco Grand Prix in light of a possible breach of the International Sporting Code. The relevant evidence is under review and a further announcement will be made in due course."
The International Sporting Code which the FIA believe McLaren may have broken makes it clear that damage can be caused to the sport by "any fraudulent conduct or any act prejudicial to the interests of any competition or to the interests of motor sport generally."
McLaren were quick to respond, a spokesman for the British team telling AFP: "We are very confident about FIA's investigation into our race strategy."
He added: "All the decisions that we took before and during the race respect perfectly the international sporting code.
"
Team orders were banned in F1 after Rubens Barrichello was told by Ferrari to let Michael Schumacher win the Austrian Grand Prix in 2002. The Brazilian had blatantly slowed down in the final corner, letting Schumacher claim the race. In a now-famous scene, spectators had vehemently protested by angrily throwing their Ferrari caps onto the racetrack.
McLaren don't deny that they told Hamilton and Alonso to slow their pace after the first round of pitstops in a move designed to reduce risks and engineer a McLaren 1-2 finish.
At the traditional Sunday post-race press conference McLaren team chief Ron Dennis insisted in Monaco they had not favoured defending World Champion Alonso over Hamilton, the British rookie who has taken the sport by storm posting here his fourth successive second place.
Dennis faced a barrage of questions on McLaren's strategy especially in light of the fact that Alonso had begun the race around the streets of Monte Carlo in a car carrying five laps less fuel than Hamilton.
This meant that Alonso was not only in a lighter car for qualifying on Saturday, but also in a lighter, faster car for the first part of the race.
Hamilton accepted this with a long face when he said: To see that I'm at a similar pace to Fernando is a positive for me, but it's just something I have to live with," he said. "I am in car number two so I am the number two driver."
Dennis said he understood Hamilton's disappointment, but pointed out that he would have reacted very differently if the team strategy had played into his hands.
"I think he's understandably disappointed and frustrated," Dennis recognised, adding "He would not have been frustrated or disappointed if a Safety Car had been deployed and he won the race."
"Time will tell, wont it? We do not favour anybody. There will be times and places when they are free to race, but this isn't one of them," Dennis pointed out, referring to the risks of overtaking in Monte Carlo's relatively narrow streets.
"Everybody in the pit-lane and the media would be saying, 'what an idiot the team principal from McLaren is for allowing his cars to compete, when one of them is in the barrier.'"
Dennis added that his decisions were not tantamount to team orders but formed instead a team strategy to win the race. "Team strategy is what you bring to bear to win a Grand Prix. Team orders is what you bring to bear to manipulate a Grand Prix," he explained.
"And we do not, and have not, manipulated Grands Prix, unless there were some exceptional circumstances, which occurred, for example, in Australia (1998), when at that time someone had tapped into our radio and instructed Mika Hakkinen to enter the pits."
"He entered the pits and I reversed that, because that was unfair, that was an outside influence on the outcome of the race. That is one of the very rare occasions that there's been a team order," Dennis stated.
"Everybody feels, I'm sure, that there is some favouritism or some penalisation that is given to Lewis, or Fernando, but we are scrupulously fair at all times in how we run this Grand Prix team."
"But this circuit, inevitably, has to be addressed in a team way and I make no excuses for instructing the racing drivers to slow their pace after the first stop," Dennis repeated.
Alonso leads the drivers' title race with 38 points, the same number as Hamilton, but has the edge as he has won two races this season while Hamilton has yet to secure his first F1 victory.
D.B. © CAPSIS International
Source AFP
05-29-2007, 05:14 PM
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At the end of the race, Hamilton was charging hard on alonso and even clipped a wall with his tire. It would have been dumb to keep at it that hard when Alonso was fully capable of a equally fast pace. Just asking for a wreck. 2nd is better than out...especially if they took each other out which would have been likey.
From now on, I am always going to predict Scott Speed because if he ever wins, I will be the only one that called it...hehehe. Poor guy...if he isnt just off the pace, something happens to his car. Nice finish for him this time though.
From now on, I am always going to predict Scott Speed because if he ever wins, I will be the only one that called it...hehehe. Poor guy...if he isnt just off the pace, something happens to his car. Nice finish for him this time though.